When reading the Moroccan nationalist daily newspaper al-‘Alam, which was published between 1946 and 1952, the historian is struck by the almost complete absence of memories of the Second World War in general, and the Holocaust in specific. Instead, the vast majority of articles dealt with anti-colonial liberation struggles from Indochina to Palestine, the contemporary political and economic malaise of war-torn Europe, and the emergence of the United States as the new superpower regulating global affairs. Rather than looking to the past, the newspaper looked towards the future. In this paper, I argue that the narrative offered in the pages of al-‘Alam displayed a desire to shift attention away from the past, characterized by colonial domination as well as the horrors of war, towards a brighter future dominated by the decolonized peoples of Africa and Asia outside the constraints of European control. By doing so, the Moroccan nationalists created a memory of the Second World War that decoupled from one another various intrinsically interwoven aspects of the War in general, and the Holocaust in particular, and caused a temporal and emotional distance from this period of horrific violence. Influenced by the progress-oriented teleological ideology of nationalism and the hopeful atmosphere prevalent across the post-War Third World, al-‘Alam mirrored the forward-looking attitude of Morocco’s anti-colonial activists. Within this worldview, the horrors of the Second World War remained but a note on the margins of global affairs, symbolic of decaying Europe’s decadence. Although also motivated by a desire to delegitimize the claims of the Jewish people to a homeland in Palestine, the Moroccan nationalist press’s attitude towards the Holocaust sought to break with the Eurocentric historical past and replace it with a post-European age.